“This workshop taught me self-confidence. Professors, scientists, college students are real people — and that could be me!“

Master quilter Elsie Dentes showed participants how to have hands-on fun with the creative arts through mixed-media collages, and from dusk till darkness the students, many of whom had never walked through woods before, experienced a night walk in silence through Sapsucker Woods (they heard huge choruses of peepers!).

To provide some insight into the college experience at a university like Cornell, three current undergraduates (Seth Inman, Evan Barrientos, and Paige Roosa) spoke about their past four years in Ithaca, and Anthony Dicembre from Cornell Admissions taught them about what’s involved in applying to Cornell (and other four-year universities). Finally, participants learned about Bioacoustics and listened to the ocean with Ashik Rahaman, whose stories were so enthralling that students stayed for over an hour after the end of the workshop instead of choosing free time! We ended the workshop with a picnic at Taughannock Falls Park and an impromptu hike to one of Ithaca’s great natural attractions.

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Celebrate Urban Birds is a citizen science project focused on better understanding the value of green spaces for birds. This project connects people of all ages and backgrounds to birds and the natural world through the arts and fun neighborhood activities. We offer mini-grants, youth development opportunities, seasonal challenges, and much more.